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Nov 14, 20008

Whim 2187: http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/Whim-2187.tar.bz2

There are various whimcompmgr performance improvements in whimcompmgr and Whim, plus a bug fix for a branch with transients.

 $ md5sum Whim-2187.tar.bz2
 b4c7b46ec0dab50159a2cce5f714eca5  Whim-2187.tar.bz2

KDE apps such as knode are very slow with Whimcompmgr. Does anyone know why? Others toolkits and apps are fine...

Oct 6, 2008

We have a new beta release http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/Whim-2173.tar.bz2

 $ md5sum Whim-2173.tar.bz2
 3d6bf66c6d680a40c73a29fdc7487d21  Whim-2173.tar.bz2

This release fixes several bugs with whimcompmgr redraw issues. It also adds a menu item for starting and stopping whimcompmgr (if you copy whimcompmgr to a directory in your path).

Oct 4, 2008 Videos!

I used recordmydesktop to make an ogg theora video of Whim in action. It's 13 MB.

I think it will give some of you a better impression of the advances Whim has made lately.

This is a Ubuntu-based desktop running Whim: http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/Whimcompmgr_action.ogg

Oct 4, 2008

I fixed some redraw bugs in whimcompmgr and now we have beta 2163: http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/Whim-2163.tar.bz2

I'm going to make some movies of Whim with whimcompmgr in action. It looks different than the most recent screenshots (much better), and whimcompmgr is difficult to perceive until you see it with action.

Oct 1, 2008

We are inching closer to a stable release with beta 2153: http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/Whim-2153.tar.bz2

This release has a new configure.tcl to aid in building Whim. It reduces the total amount of time spent building Whim.

There were also some changes to whimcompmgr to improve performance a bit.

Sep 17, 2008

We have a new Whim beta 2134: http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/Whim-2134.tar.bz2

 md5sum Whim-2134.tar.bz2
 de783f35e79999c02d9b6fe3dd66d1f4  Whim-2134.tar.bz2

This beta eliminates the need to use set.config root_width and set.config root_height in a ~/.whim_config.

New Features

whimcompmgr is a new compositing manager that uses the X.org extensions, such as Composite, Render, and XFixes in order to provide alpha transparency.
various applets have been improved or extended.
Several new applets were added.
Per-desktop state is now saved, including desktop background images, and colors.
There is more of a Whim API, based on objstructure.
The default distribution is minimal, and doesn't include all of megapkg.
A new Whimterm provides an xterm-like widget within a ttk::notebook.
UTF-8 title properties now take precedence.

Aug 21, 2008 We now have a new whimcompmgr (available from megapkg): http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/whimcompmgr.png http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/whimcompmgr-2.png

Whimcompmgr provides compositing features compatible with the Whim_unstable.vfs branch of megapkg.

March 4, 2008 Quick link to the lastest Whim starkit for Linux-x86 (compatible with tclkit 8.5.x only) http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/Whim-1147.kit ~604K

 $ md5sum Whim-1147.kit
 bac9c64e886776ca38929aaa3c2a9e93  Whim-1147.kit

March 4, 2008 There is now a Whim2 that is an experimental release that uses a custom Xvfb-based X server for fast alpha transparency, and unique abilities that you simply won't find with similar window managers. A tarball of binaries built in Ubuntu 7.0.4 (compatible with libc-2.5.so) is available here: http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/Whim2-1147.tar.bz2

 $ md5sum Whim2-1147.tar.bz2
 278f3ba38bdaec0f0163df7e90d5ef62  Whim2-1147.tar.bz2

Now tested on Nokia N770 (Nokia N770 Installation) & Sharp Zaurus running PdaXrom!

...and much much more!